U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

We’ve worked with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to protect or restore more than one million acres, coast to coast. Today, we’re strategically confronting complex conservation challenges, including loss of wildlife habitat from infrastructure development, climate change and fragmentation.

Land Conservation

National Wildlife Refuges are lands managed by the FWS to protect habitat for wildlife. By partnering with FWS and private landowners wishing to sell their land, we acquire lands to help complete and protect our nation’s National Wildlife Refuges. We also help states implement funding from the FWS to establish and expand state wildlife management areas, and other state-owned lands, to preserve wildlife habitat and provide public recreational access.

Mitigation

Serving as a trusted, independent resource, The Conservation Fund works with landowners and project partners to match mitigation funding with lands that the Service identifies as high conservation priorities. We negotiate the best conservation outcomes, while minimizing process delays.Learn more >>

Climate Change

We’re helping USFWS confront sea level rise with strategic planning, land acquisition and restoration. We also plant trees to restore native forest habitat that cleans our air, filters our water and provides valuable shelter for birds and animals like the threatened Louisiana black bear. So far, we’ve restored more than 25,000 acres at 14 national wildlife refuges in the Southeast and Midwest. Learn more >>